City Notice – The Delhi Proustians, 38th Meeting

The 38th meeting of The Delhi Proustians was to take place on March 9 2015. The Delhi Walla has moved it to next week.

Sorry, but there’s a reason.

Since the day I announced the club’s reopening after a long break, quite a few readers have written to me enquiring about the best English translation of Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time. I have an opinion on the subject, of course. But I want to pass on the most considered advice to potential Proustians. Luckily, the English speaking world’s most renowned professor on everything Proust has promised to mail me his thoughts over the next few days. I’m looking forward to share his views with you.

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Since 2007, Mayank Austen Soofi has been collecting hundreds of stories taking place in Delhi, through writing and photography, for his acclaimed website The Delhi Walla. Every day, Mayank walks around the city with his camera and notebook to track down the part of extraordinary that exists in the seemingly mundane aspects of urban lives. By exploring and documenting the streets, buildings, houses, cuisines, traditions and people of Delhi, his work is also an attempt to give the megalopolis an intimate voice, and to capture the passing of time in this otherwise restlessly changing city.

Mayank is also a daily columnist for Hindustan Times newspaper, and the author of ‘Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District’ (published by Penguin) and the four-volume ‘The Delhi Walla’ guidebooks (HarperCollins).